Temperature profoundly impacts both the phenotypes and distributions of organisms. These
thermal effects exert strong selective pressures on behaviour, physiology and life history …

Over the last 50 yr, thermal biology has shifted from a largely physiological science to a
more integrated science of behavior, physiology, ecology, and evolution. Today, the …

Activity level (the proportion of time that animals spend active) is a behavioural and
ecological metric that can provide an indicator of energetics, foraging effort and exposure to …

Predation is a central feature of ecological communities. Most theoretical and empirical
studies of predation focus on the consequences of predators consuming their prey …

Camera traps and radiotags commonly are used to estimate animal activity curves.
However, little empirical evidence has been provided to validate whether they produce …

Anthropogenically-driven climate warming is a hypothesized driver of animal body size
reductions. Less understood are effects of other human-caused disturbances on body size …

In recent years, ecologists have stepped up to address the challenges imposed by rapidly
changing climates. Some researchers have developed niche-based methods to predict how …

Background Most ecological models assume that predator and prey populations interact
solely through consumption: predators reduce prey densities by killing and consuming …

Recent global warming threatens many species and has already caused population‐and
species‐level extinctions. In particular, high risks of extinction are expected for isolated …

Behavioural responses to reduce predation risk might cause demographic 'costs of fear'.
Costs differ among species, but a conceptual framework to understand this variation is …